What is paperclip-surfers AGENTS.md?

A contributor guide for Paperclip, a project that manages companies run by AI agents. It explains the code layout, required documents, development setup, and embedded development database.

Use it when developing Paperclip's API, web interface, database packages, agent adapters, plugins, or documentation, especially when starting the local development environment.

It helps an agent find the right part of the project and follow the repository's required reading and setup steps before changing code.

How IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers/master/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 951 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 951 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
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Opus 5	$0.00476	$0.00476
Sonnet 5	$0.00190	$0.00190
Haiku 4.5	$0.00095	$0.00095

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2d7952df4615, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

paperclip-surfers AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf data/pglite

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl http://localhost:3100/api/health

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

one-person-capital AGENTS.md — 95% identical, 8 lines differ

AGENTS.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for human and AI contributors working in this repository.

1. Purpose

Paperclip is a control plane for AI-agent companies. The current implementation target is V1 and is defined in doc/SPEC-implementation.md.

2. Read This First

Before making changes, read in this order:

doc/GOAL.md
doc/PRODUCT.md
doc/SPEC-implementation.md
doc/DEVELOPING.md
doc/DATABASE.md

doc/SPEC.md is long-horizon product context. doc/SPEC-implementation.md is the concrete V1 build contract.

3. Repo Map

server/: Express REST API and orchestration services
ui/: React + Vite board UI
packages/db/: Drizzle schema, migrations, DB clients
packages/shared/: shared types, constants, validators, API path constants
packages/adapters/: agent adapter implementations (Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.)
packages/adapter-utils/: shared adapter utilities
packages/plugins/: plugin system packages
doc/: operational and product docs

4. Dev Setup (Auto DB)

Use embedded PGlite in dev by leaving DATABASE_URL unset.

pnpm install
pnpm dev

This starts:

API: http://localhost:3100
UI: http://localhost:3100 (served by API server in dev middleware mode)

Quick checks:

curl http://localhost:3100/api/health
curl http://localhost:3100/api/companies

Reset local dev DB:

rm -rf data/pglite
pnpm dev

5. Core Engineering Rules

Keep changes company-scoped. Every domain entity should be scoped to a company and company boundaries must be enforced in routes/services.
Keep contracts synchronized. If you change schema/API behavior, update all impacted layers:

packages/db schema and exports
packages/shared types/constants/validators
server routes/services
ui API clients and pages

Preserve control-plane invariants.

Single-assignee task model
Atomic issue checkout semantics
Approval gates for governed actions
Budget hard-stop auto-pause behavior
Activity logging for mutating actions

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

9d ago First seen · 149 lines · 951 tokens per session scan C 2d7952df4615

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paperclip-surfers AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers (74 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 951 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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